ARTF enforces new emergency rule for the Mexican Railway System / @jorgenunol @SCT_mx >>>

#SICT.- The Railway Transportation Regulatory Agency (ARTF), a decentralized body of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), today published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, the Emergency Mexican Official Standard NOM-EM-003-ARTF-2023 «Railway System-Safety-Classification and Track Specifications», which will become effective as of tomorrow with a six-month term.

This standard arises with the purpose of responding to the needs of railroad transportation required today by the priority projects considered in the National Development Plan, so it is pertinent to have an expeditious and useful regulation applicable to priority projects, such as the Mayan Train, the Inter-Oceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Interurban Train Mexico-Toluca.

The Official Mexican Emergency Standard in question states that the parameters and technical specifications must cover issues related to track classes for passenger services that will operate at speeds of 160 km/h, as well as provisions related to non-ballasted track systems, fastenings, deviations, track speeds and geometry, etc.

In addition, this regulation extends the classification of tracks, extending the range from class 5 to class 6, and also includes the quality requirements to be met by the layers forming the track substructure and the updating and integration of ballasted track and slab track systems.

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